Biomechanical considerations in the design of graft: The homeostasis hypothesis

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages 499-535

  Kassab, Ghassan S ^a   Navia, José A ^b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arterial conduits; Bypass surgery; Coronary artery disease; Ischemic heart disease; Vascular remodeling

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; STRESSES; SURGERY;

ARTERIAL CONDUITS; BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASES; VASCULAR REMODELING;

GRAFTS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

BIOFLUID MECHANICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOSOLID MECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR REMODELING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 33748133431     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.8.010506.105023     Document Type: Review

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